CONTACT INFORMATION

Thurstable School Sports College and Sixth form Centre

Maypole Road

Tiptree

Essex

CO5 0EW

Telephone 01621 816526

Fax 01621 815409

School Email: thurstable@thurstable.essex.sch.uk

Web site www.thurstable.essex.sch.uk

If you wish to contact a specific member of staff this can be done by:

emailing them directly by using their surname and their first initial followed by @thurstable.essex.sch.uk. eg baileyp@thurstable.essex.sch.uk
writing a note in your child’s planner and asking them to show the member of staff
phoning the school on the above number.

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School Organisation & Making Contact

The teaching staff are organised into Faculties (sometimes a single subject and sometimes a group of subjects) based on their specialist areas of knowledge, with a Head of Faculty who is in charge of learning and teaching in that subject. Your child will normally have a different teacher for each subject who is specialist in that subject.

If you have a question or concern about your child’s work or learning in a subject the best person to address it to is your child’s teacher in that subject. If for any reason you are not happy with the answers you receive, you should contact the head of that subject or faculty.

Students are organised into Year Groups according to their age. Each year group has eight tutor groups. Each tutor group has a Form Tutor, who is the teacher responsible for the learning and development of each child across all the subjects the child takes. Each Year Group has a Head of Year, who is the teacher who manages the work of the Form Tutors, and works with them in supporting the learning and development of students in the Year Group. Each Year Group also has a Learning Relationships Coordinator, who focuses particularly on the social and emotional needs of children in the year group and has no teaching timetable.

If you have a question or concern about your child’s general learning or development you should contact your child’s form tutor. If for any reason you are not happy with the answers you receive, you should contact the Head of Year.

If you have a question or concern regarding your child’s social or emotional needs in school (including friendship issues or incidents of bullying), or you want to pass on information about your child’s situation or experiences outside school that you think may affect their learning and development in school, you should contact the Learning relationship Co-ordinator for your child’s year. If for any reason you are not happy with the answers or response you receive, you should contact the Head of Year.

All staff are best contacted using email. You may communicate with staff by email and they will acknowledge your email and get back to you as soon as they can. There is a strict code followed by all staff regarding emails and this includes not engaging in long debates about problematic issues: these should be dealt with by arranging a meeting. The purpose is mainly to exchange information.

Learning Relationships Coordinators

In view of parental requests that the school should be more easily contactable, Thurstable school has introduced 5 non-teaching staff members – one for each year group – who have been employed to improve communication between home and school on the following:

• Issues requiring emotional support
• Issues regarding behavioural concerns
• Issues surrounding student welfare

With no teaching load, the Learning Relationships Coordinators (LRC's) can liaise with home, members of the pastoral team and, where appropriate, external agencies to ensure that each student is well supported.

Year 7 – Mrs N Redfern redfernn@thurstable.essex.sch.uk

Year 8 – Mrs P Jacobs jacobsp@thurstable.essex.sch.uk

Year 9 – Miss L Collins collinsl@thurstable.essex.sch.uk

Year 10 – Mrs E Featherstone featherstonee@thurstable.essex.sch.uk

Year 11 – Mrs T Smith smitht@thurstable.essex.sch.uk